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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 09:45 AM) Yeah, other assistant attorney generals in his office helped him, since that's their job. He didn't hire some group of lawyer consultants from some outside firm. This is just nonsense. No, but he did in the past employ the same PR firm that is paying the judge a salary, and he has been advised on health care policy by that PR firm.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 09:42 AM) As s***ty as adultery is, committing perjury, while President of the United States, is worse. By a long shot. And that's not why Newt Gingrich resigned.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 09:37 AM) The ATTORNEY GENERAL in Virginia brought the case, not some private conservative group hell bent on destroying the world. Why do you keep making this up? Ok, now you're the one putting words in my mouth. Do you think that the AG is the only lawyer who worked on the case, or do you think that the Virginia AG may employ other lawyers who helped argue the case? If the latter is the case, the word "Group" is entirely accurate, as is the fact that the AG had contracted with the PR Firm in the past. Let's put it this way...the rest of you'd have a problem with it, although not a huge one, if the roles were reversed here, and it was a Democratic consultant ruling positively on this case after having contracted for PR duties with the Obama administration and made money advising him on Health Care policy.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 09:38 AM) Yeah, who remembers he committed perjury? Who needs a President that is trustworthy, ethical and honest? Totally the same. Dude, Gingrich resigned because of the affair, plain and simple.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 09:33 AM) Since then she told him that her brother in law was a big White Sox fan and included an autographed Gavin Floyd baseball card in her Christmas card to us. She still doesn't really care since she is not into sports, but I may have to go visit her this winter and get to know her nieghbor a little ! Tell him to have a good april!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 09:08 AM) you don't need these guys to be elite. In other words...it's not exactly a youth movement.

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Stop pretending this is reality.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 10:18 PM) I know, there's always something evil (EEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL) whenever someone who has any attachment what-so-ever to anything that might be against what you think is right. /I gets no respect! Leave it to Kap to tell us how conflicts of interest are a good thing. The more judges on the take, the more they'll make the right decision.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 12:37 AM) Boehner needs to take notes on how Newt Gingrich went down in flames and ended up punching himself out before he starts trying to sound like he's not going to stop until he has everything his way. Basically, don't cheat on your wife while impeaching the President for doing the same?

QUOTE (beautox @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 08:47 AM) Indeed. Boston's quasi youth movement is going to be fun to watch between this season and next. I think they give the keys to Lowrie and move Scutaro for pieces as well, and then after JD drew leaves next year or gets hurt during this year they have Kalish and Nava ready to step in, all though i think Nava breaks camp as the 4th OF and Kalish gets a bit more polish at AAA. Youth Movement = spending $300 million on Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 14, 2010 -> 08:22 AM) Chances are the contract eventually becomes an albatross, however, Jaime Moyer is always out there as an example of someone who struggled while they were young and turned it on as an older pitcher and really aged well. He's a one in a million probably and is probably a bad example, but he is an example. Personally, unless I was the Yankees and can make $100 million mistakes without it really harming me, I don't think I would have offered Lee the money. It's not just the Lee contract that the Phitins are holding that could become an albatross. They're really becoming the Yankees in more ways than 1...yes they seemingly have every big name available now, but just like the Yankees, you can look and say "gosh, every one of their big names is getting up there in age". They will make the playoffs because even if 2 of their big names have injury problems they're still a loaded team, but we've seen already that giving a ton of money to 30+ year olds can be just as much of a weakness as a strength.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 06:22 PM) He had one insanely good month that brought his totals way up, but can you honestly say that you were favorably impressed the rest of the season? No, I'd call his performance adequate. I'd call Carlos's disappointing, because I was hoping/expecting a ton more.

My bad.

Brett Favre is out like the Metrodome. Streak ends at 297.

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 06:10 PM) Seems like there are several Tennesseans here on soxtalk. How'd you guys end up in Tennessee/end up Sox fans in Tennessee? I'm interested as I'm a temporary transplant as well. I'm at Univ. of Tennessee as a postdoctoral research associate.

You want to be seriously impressed? This one took some cojones. A 3:30 minute rant on Fox and Friends about how evil it is of the U.S. Senate to leave the thousands of 9/11 responders hung out to dry on that health care bill. 3:30 of a patriotic rant...without noting a single time that all of the 42 votes against it were Republicans and all 57 in favor were Democrats. The entire time, just stating "The U.S. Senate" or "The Congress".

Never gonna get it, not this time, never eva gonna get it, my love.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 05:51 PM) Didn't knightni post the Thor trailer a couple days back? Seems that way, yes, from a brief check I think that was a leaked version and that's the official one today.

Love to lick that lollipop lusciously.

Some big money trailers today. Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Just simmer down.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 13, 2010 -> 05:41 PM) LOL, that seems like a pretty good reason to recuse yourself. It's a bit murky here because he's not actively part of the group bringing the lawsuit (i.e. it's not that consulting group that brought the suit), but a reasonable system might consider that a reason for recusal, since the group that did bring the suit had employed him in the past. That said, he didn't vote to overturn it because of the money.

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Generally conservative/libertarian judicial commenter/scholar Eugene Volokh thinks that the judge's reasoning has a significant flaw. Edit: The judge also owns a share of a Republican consulting firm that worked to oppose the Health Care bill, among other things. In the last reporting years (2006-2007) he took home something on the order of $10,000 a year from that consulting firm.